I knocked out a wall. Well, I widened a doorway. Okay – I supervised the widening of a doorway.
When we first looked at this house, I wasn’t sold on it almost entirely because of the small eat-in kitchen. We would turn the formal dining room into a study, which meant all of our meals and entertaining would be done in an awkwardly small breakfast nook. The door to the garage also opens into the nook™, which meant we’d need to shimmy around the table every time we were coming or going.
Then one of us (exactly who is up for debate) had a stroke of genius. “What if we knock out the wall between the living room and the nook™?”
Can we do that? Well, we did … with the expert help of two men, each with two first names. Scott Allen and Randal Daniel made the following photos possible. To be sure, there is still some finishing work to be done. I still need to put up the casing, the trim, and texture the drywall.
These are quick photomerges (a bunch of shots stitched together). So if things look a little off-kilter, that’s not our house, it’s my lazy Photoshop skillz.
Kitchen Before

Kitchen After

Living room Before

Living room After

